The Florida tobogan – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The Florida tobogan, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Florida tobogan
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Florida is not a state people usually associate with toboggan runs, which makes this c1892 view by Jacksonville photographer O. Pierre Havens an unusual one. The caption card also lists alligators, sleds, and African American children, and it tags the picture as caricature, which suggests a staged, comic scene. Tourist-oriented views of the post-Reconstruction South often reduced Black figures to stereotypes for white audiences, so this image is worth reading as evidence of those attitudes as much as of winter-season amusement. The record's details come from the original caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | c1892. |
| Subjects | Photo by O. Pierre Havens, Jacksonville, Fla. cf. America's Yesterdays, p. 159. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Fla.--Misc.--1892; Reptiles--Alligators; Sleds...; African American children--Caricatures--1892; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,196 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138377 |
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